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French 'New Deal' of the 1930s and Leon Blum

week at unchanged weekly wages (which was applied on an industry-by-industry basis between September 1936 and March 1937, the sett...

Life and Works of Nineteenth Century French Composer Cesar Franck

(1822-1890) was born in Liege where he also first studied as a piano virtuoso from 1830-1835. Franck first toured Belgium at the a...

Gender Roles and African Women in African and French Literature

This paper examines the depiction of African Women in Camara Laye's The Dark Child and Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood in fiv...

1999 French Banking Merger and Hostile Takeover

In fifteen pages the 1999 banking battle between France's Paribas banks, Societe Generale, and the Banque Nationale de Paris is ex...

Seventeenth Century French Absolutism

monarchy reinforced its monitoring of printing, totally strangling the emerging press" (The Library of Congress, 2005). Even the F...

Mandate Period and Middle East Interests of the British and French

Lebanon we can appreciate the conflict. In 1920 the San Remo Conference saw a total collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The oi...

French Public Schools and Veil Wearing Muslim Women

complete and unrelenting distinction between church and state. There would be no religious exceptions, whatsoever, and this inclu...

Themes in French Literary Classics

daughters, only to have them essentially through it all in his face for it was not enough. This simple understanding presents us w...

Causes of World War I and French Participation in the Conflict

insecurity "swept away all regimes from Vladivostok to the Rhine" (Hobsbawm, 1995, p. 67), which originated in Central Europe. Be...

Algeria: French Colonization

the colonization of Algeria, as was the case for Africa as a whole, occurred largely because of the natural resources which existe...

French Canadians at the End of the 19th Century

"the aspirations of the people themselves. The controlling idea of the French Canadian is to retain...

Algeria and French Colonialism

constant and effective contrast made between Eliane, who represents the beauty of the country as seen by its colonizers, and Camil...

French and American Involvement in Vietnam

of Vietnam was born ("Earliest known history of Vietnam," 2007). In 1946, it was all agreed that Vietnam would be independent ("E...

Women in the American Revolution

was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...

Azuela: "The Underdogs"

we learn very little else of importance. We dont know much about how he thinks, what his philosophy is, what his hopes and dreams ...

Article Critique: Adrian Karatnycky, "The Orange Revolution"

reads the piece will probably be strongly reminded of some of the strong-arm tactics of the Republicans in Florida. Karatnycky say...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

Octavio Paz: Mexican Revolution

to colonialism was almost something of a suicide as well as an acceptance of their death as a people. Paz (1985) notes that...

Galileo's Impact On The Scientific Revolution

connection between science and religion is not easily attained, inasmuch as science is based in a foundation of undeniable proof, ...

Lincoln and the Second Revolution

the north prior to and during the war, the political shift in power with the south remaining weak in the national forum for decade...

Quebec/The Quiet Revolution

World War II, since 1936.4 The modernization that had been occurring for quite sometime accelerated under this new leadership. Wit...

The Development of Modern Europe

the advent of machines (Fuller, 1987). Machines did change the way that workers lived. These workers had been transformed psycholo...

Relations between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic of Iran

oil, so the United States claims that any move on Irans part to threaten the oil supply will not be tolerated (Sadri). Since the U...

Revolutionary War's Radicalism

progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...

How Revolutionary was the American Revolution?

enough to overcome racial discrimination or the claims of the south that it needed slave labor to work the plantations (Coombs, 19...

The Cuban and Mexican Revolutions Compared

the effect that the U.S. supported Castros revolt. After all, at least on the surface, it seemed as if he was the lesser of the ev...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

The Changing View of Warfare

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

The Changing Nature of War

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

1960s Cultural Revolution

(increases in drug use) (Garrett 288). A prominent feature of the decade is that young people became alienated from the traditiona...